Baby food is any food that is given specifically to infants, roughly between the ages of six months to two years. The food comes in multiple varieties and tastes, can be produced by many manufacturers, or may be table food that the rest of the family is eating, mashed up. A common trait of the many different baby foods is that they are designed for ease of eating; either a soft, liquidy paste or an easily chewed food. This is because infants lack teeth and experience in eating.

Breast-feeding helps prevent babies' allergies, but there's no good evidence for avoiding certain foods during pregnancy, using soy formula or delaying introduction of solid foods beyond six months.

And Baby Will Probably Like Them...And, regardless of whether you're breast feeding or using formula, offer baby opportunities to taste fruits and vegetables during the transition to solid foods by giving repeated feeding exposures to these healthy foods.

African women infected with the AIDS virus cut the risk of transmitting it to their babies when they fed them exclusively breast milk and not also formula, animal milk or solid food, a study found on Thursday.Researchers in South Africa, writing in the Lancet medical journal, tracked 1,372 HIV-infected women and found a 4 percent risk of postn[...]